BONUS - Gumshoes of Christmas Past

Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Jack Mooney

Arts, Performing Arts, Mystery, Detectives, Old, Radio, Time, Tv & Film, Oldtimeradio

4.6 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2023

⏱️ 150 minutes

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Summary

We need a little Christmas - and some Christmas mysteries! To celebrate the season, I'm sharing more of my favorite holiday adventures of old time radio detectives. Dr. Watson dresses as Santa and Sherlock Holmes thwarts a robbery in "The Night Before Christmas," with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce in The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (originally aired on Mutual on December 24, 1945). On Casey, Crime Photographer, our hero spies a pickpocket at a department store and discovers a case of kidnapping and murder in "Christmas Shopping" (originally aired on CBS on December 19, 1946). Boston Blackie tries to catch a jewel thief on Christmas Eve in a syndicated mystery, and Candy Matson is hired to find one of Santa's helpers who's gone missing in "Jack Frost" (originally aired on NBC on December 10, 1949). Finally, Charles Russell is "the man with the action-packed expense account" in "Small Time Swindles of Big Time Department Stores, or How I Played Santa Claus and Almost Got Left Holding the Sack" from Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (originally aired on CBS on December 24, 1949).

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0:00.0	Get this and get it straight.
0:02.0	Crime is a sucker's road,
0:04.0	and those who travel it'd wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.
0:07.0	The story you're about to hear is true. The
0:12.5	The story you were about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
0:18.5	The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.
0:21.5	The Adventures of the Saints starring Vincent Prize.
0:25.0	Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account.
0:30.0	America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator
0:33.2	yours truly Johnny Deller The Happy Holidays and Welcome to a bonus episode of Down These Mean Streets. There's only one more show before I sign off for
1:05.7	2023 but before I wrap up I want to share some seasonal sloothing and
1:11.9	revisit more of my favorite radio Christmas mysteries.
1:16.5	I've lined up five holiday adventures of some great radio crime fighters and
1:22.1	whether you're rapping gifts traveling some great radio crime fighters.
1:22.6	And whether you're rapping gifts, traveling to see family and friends,
1:27.0	or just taking a break from the holiday hustle and bustle,
1:30.5	I hope you'll enjoy listening along.
1:33.0	First, we're heading to Baker Street with Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson in the night before Christmas, a show that aired on mutual, appropriately enough, on Christmas Eve
1:48.2	1945. It's a tale of two Santas, one played by Watson himself, and of a yultide
1:55.2	heist planned by an associate of the notorious Professor Moriarty.
2:00.3	It's up to Sherlock Holmes to thwart the thief and to make sure that a group of orphans has a very Merry Christmas.
2:08.0	Then we'll go Christmas shopping with Casey Crime Photographer in an episode that aired on CBS on December 19th,
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